Card punching or stamping machine.



110.742.789. PATENTED 0012221903.

.. W. W. HODGSON.

GARD PUNCHING OR STAMPING MACHINE.

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No. 742,789. y l PATENTED 00T. 27, 1903.

W. W. HODGSON.

GARD PUNGHING OB. STAMPING. MACHINE.

' APPLICATION FILED MAR. s, 1903.

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No. 74?,789. Y Patented October 27, 1903.

UNITED STATES PATENT Ormes.

WALTER IV. HODGSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR' OFTWO-THIRDS TO WILLIAM E. BEATTY AND FRED SUTOLIFFE, OF PHILA- DELPIIIA,PENNSYLVANIA.

CARD PUNCHING OR STAMPING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 742,789, dated October27,' 1903.

Application filed March 5, 1903. Serial No. 146,320. (No model.) v

To tI/Z whom it may concern: tion of stamping the cards a very difficultBe it known that I, WALTER W. HODGSON, one, requiring the closest andmost careful a citizen of the United States, residing in attention onthe part of the operator and cor- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, haveinvented respondingly limiting the output of the macertain Improvementsin Card Punching or chine. 55 Stamping Machines, of which thefollowingis The object of my invention, therefore, is a specification.to so construct the machine that it will auto- The object of myinvention is to so con- `matically take care of the alternation ofstruct a jacquard-card punching or stamping punched and blank spacesbefore referred to,

xo machine that each key of the same may be ea'ch key controlling twopunches and the 6o caused'to control either of two punches of operatormanipulating these keys in the same the row with which the machine isprovided, manner as though punching a simple design whereby said key maybe caused to eect the involving only the use of six punches. punching ofeither an odd or an even hole in The punches l are arranged in a row, as

the row of holes formed in the card by said usual, and are verticallysupported in the 65 row of punches, thereby lessening thenumstamping-head in the usual manner. Said ber of keys required andmaterially simplistamping-head consists in the present ini'ying andfacilitating the operation of said stance of a lower section 2, anintermediate keys. section 3, and an upper section 4, the section 2o Inthe accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is 2 being mounted immovably uponthe verti- 7o a sectional plan view on the line a a, Fig. 2, cal postsor studs 5 at the ends of the stampof sufficient of a jacquard-cardpunching or ing-head, but the intermediate section 3 and stampingmachine to illustrate my invention'. the upper section 4 being movabletrans- Fig. 2 is atransverse section of the stampingversely in respectto said lower section for a head on the line h b, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is asimipurpose described hereinafter. 75 lar view illustrating'some of theparts ad- The stems of the keys 6 are guided in slots justed to adiEerent position from that repin the intermediate section 3 of thestampingresented in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a plan view of head and are actedupon by springs 7, tendpart of a modified form of key for use in saiding to project. them; but the head 8 at themachine. Fig. 5 is a viewsimilar to Fig. 1, inner end of each key 6 is peculiarly formed, 8o butillustrating another embodiment Vof my having a lateral bend or odset tothe extent invention. Fig. 6 is a transverse section of of the distancebetween adjoining punches the stamping-head on the line c c, Fig. 5; andof the row, which bend is projected to a like Fig. 7 is a perspectiveView of one of the keys extent, so that while one portion of the heademployed in said machine. is in line withone punch, other portions of 85In preparing jacquardcards for certain the head'will be in line with thepunch alongclasses of work it is necessary to alternate side of thesame. the punched and blank portions of the card There are only half asmany keys as there in a certain way. For instance, if an oddare punches,and when the keys are project- 4o numbered space in the row is punchedthe ed, as shown in Fig. 1, the oset and pro- 9o adjoining even-numberedspace is permitted jecting portion of the heads 8 of the same to remainblank, or vice versa, or if a space overlap the tops of one-half of thepunchesof the row on one half of the longitudinal say the odd punches ofthe rowwhile the center of the card is punched the correspondotherportions of said heads 8 are in line with,

ing space on the other half of the card is perbut do not overlap, theeven numbered 95 mitted to remain blank, or vice versa. Usupunches ofthe row. If, however, the key is ally the card punching or stampingmachine depressed, the oset portion of its head is has as many keys asthere are punches in a moved away from the punch which it norrow, andthe necessity of keeping in mind mally overlaps, and the other portionof the 5o this peculiarity of cutting renders the operahead is caused tooverlap the adjoining punch. rco

Hence if in the operation of the machine a key is permitted to remain inthe projected position it will lock or prevent from moving upward acorresponding odd-numbered punch of the row, but will have no eiect uponthe adjoining even-numbered punch, and said odd-numbered punch willtherefore form a hole in the card, while the even-numbered punch, beingpermitted to yield freelyin a vertical direction, will permit itsportion of the card to remain unpunched or blank. If, however, the keyis depressed, a reverse action will take place,theevennumbered punchbeing locked in position vertically, so as to cause it to perforate itscorresponding portion of the card, and the odd-numbered punch being freefrom vertical confinement, so as topermit itsportion of the card toremain blank.

Other methods of forming the key-head so as to present two actingportions in dierent lateral and longitudinal planes may be adopted. Forinstance, in Fig. 4 I have shown a key having a head 8a wide enough tocover two punches,this head having a forward opening 8l in line with onepunch and a rear opening Sc in line with the adjoining punch.

In addition to the punches 1 an ordinary card-stamping machine is alsoprovided with a special punch 9 for forming at the opposite ends of thecard the openings for the reception of the pegs on the card-cylinder.This punch is normally inoperative and canbe projected vertically intoan opening 1O in the intermediate section 3 and upper section 4 of thestamping-head, as shown in Fig. 2; but when it is desired to render thepunch 9 operative said intermediate and upper sections are pushedrearwardly, so as to carry the opening 10 out of line with said punch 9and bring a plug 11 above it. The peg-hole is punched in the card beforethe formation of the Iirst row of holes and after the formation of thelast row of holes by the punches 1, and when it is being formed theopening 10 in the sections 3 and 4 of the stampinghead is above the rowof punches 1, so as to permit of the rise into said opening of the upperends of said punches, the key-heads 8 having been carried away from thepunches by the rearward movement of the section 3, as shown in Fig. 3.

The sections 3 and 4 of the stamping-head mayV be normally' retained inkthe position shown in Fig. 2 by any suitable means-such, for instance,as springs 12, contained in the slots which are formed at the oppositeends ot' the sections 3 and 4 for the reception of the vertical studs 5of the stamping-head.

The machine so far described provides for control of alternate andadjacent punches by a single key; but in some classes of work thepunches which it is desired to subject to such joint control are morewidely separated. vFor instance, each key may be called upon to controlone of a series of six punches on one side of the longitudinal center ofthe card and a corresponding one of another set of six pressed, willcontrol punches on the opposite side of said centralV line. In.adapting'the machine for this class of work I `can adopt theconstruction shown in Figs. 5 and 6, on reference to which it will beobserved that each key 6 has a forked innerend 13 with downwardly-bentends 14 and 15, the end 14 normally overlapping one of the punches ofthe row when the key is projected and the other end 15 beingthennormally free from engagement with a corresponding punch of the otherset, the ends of the fork being so disposed, however, that depression ofthe key will carry the normally overlapping end 14 of the same away fromits respective punch and will bring the normally non-overlapping end 15over its respective punch, the action being, therefore, precisely thesame as in the structure shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, with the exceptionof the difference of the location of the punches under control of thekey. Y

The stamping-head is made in sections in order to permit of theinsertion with their enlarged heads; but while it is preferred to formit in three sections, as shown, it may in some cases consist of but twosections, the sections 3 and 4 being combined.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patents 1. A card punching or stamping machine having a row ofpunches and a series of keys, each with two punch-controlling portionsso disposed that, when the key is projected, it will control one punch,and, when it is depressed, will control another and a dierent punch,substantially as specified.

2. A card punching or stamping machine having a row of punches and aseries of keys each with acting member or head having two portions, onelaterally offset and longitudinally projected in respect totheother,where by each key may be caused to control either one of a pair ofpunches, substantially as specified.

3. The combination in a card punching or stamping machine, of a row ofpunches and a series of keys, each of said keys having punch-controllingportions which are out of line with each other both laterally and 1on-4gitudinally, whereby, when projected it will control one punch of theset, and, when deanother and a different punch of the set, substantiallyas specied.

4. The combination in a card punching or stamping machine, of a row ofpunches, and a series of keys each having a forked inner end withterminations adapted, in one position of the key, to control one punchof the set, and in another position of the key, to control another punchof the set, substantially 'as specified.

5. The combination stamping machine, of posed of sections,

in a card punching or a stamping-head comone above another, punchescarried by the lower section, and punch-controlling keys Vcarried by asection above the IOO IIO

same, said upper section being movable back and forth over said lowersection, substantially as specified.

6. The combination in a card punching or stamping machine, of astamping-head having a'lower section carrying a peg-hole punch, and asection above the same which is movable rearwardly over said lowersection and has an opening which, in one position of said overlyingsection is in line with said peg-hole punch, and, in another position ofsaid overlying section, is out of line therewith, substantially asspecied.

7. The combination in a card punching or stamping machine, of astamping-head havi ing alower section carrying a series of punches andalso a peg-hole punch, and a section above the same which is movablerearwardly in respect to said lower section and has an opening, which,in one position of said overlying section is in line with the peg-holepunch, and in the other position of said overlying section is in linewith the other punches, substantially as specified.

8. The combination in a card punching or stamping machine, of astamping-head having upper, lower, and the lower section carrying aseries of punches, and the intermediate section carrying a `se ries ofpunch-controlling keys, substantially as specified.

-In testimony whereof I have signed my naine to this speeication in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

WALTER W. HODGSON.

Witnesses:

F. E. Enormou), Jos. H. KLEIN.

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